Look like Tess McGill’s allure comes from her determination, it’s worth In ways she’s a perfect compliment to Superman a sort of real Gunwoman among an army of male editors and peers, and never once is cornered toĭo menial tasks. You’re into self-preservation), and really good at what she does. Metropolis, she’s in the right place at the right time (or the wrong place if Journalist in the center of the biggest story ever to hit New York facsimile Secondary character Lois’ is a major force in Superman. The words of her peers? If so, that sorta sucks. Of course, Margot wins,īut does the plight of the powerful woman always rests on her ability to defy Still her entourage finds said power suspect. Success story due largely to her determination, and she’s earned her power, but Margot, you know how she gets.), but therein lies the complication: Margot’s a Surely in her excess Margot must be confused, (Oh, that When it becomes obvious to Margot that Eve is poisoning the well, the Their wounds and occasionally act as supportive partners (right before gettingĭumped).
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Women in this movie do the fighting while men lick She’d just kicked Eve (Anne Baxter) to the curb, instead of buying her hopelessįan sob story, she’d have been better off. Margot’s greatest mistake was being sympathetic. To her brother, the girls you marry say “no.” What’s Q.E.D. So here’s the first of two math problems: According toĮileen, boys are asking and presumably not always getting turned down. And in that pursuit, she’s certainly proactive. Her status as an “amateur” (again, that’s code). Moreover, she’s out to relieve herself of Speaks quite directly about the injustice of her position. She stands with dignity even after she’s been rejected and When her hot-headed brother defends her, and fights back when he rejects her “Is a girl that’s been going around with a fellow forĪ reasonable length of time supposed to go to the bed with him or not?” Kubelik “worldly” (that’s code) but she’s gotĪn eye on advancement and grasps the reality that, if soul-sucking, the game is “good-girls” are also virtuous brides, which means a lot of nay saying on the If we’re using movies as our guide through history, Ultimately saved by a guy far weaker than she. (Exactly how much does Rosanna Arquette look like Madonna?)This, her big screen debut, Desperately Seeking Susan painted Madonna as a starlet still living on street level and unquestionably scored her some longstanding indie cred.īe the most tragic figure on our list. The missing, muse-like woman for an amnesiac Rosanna Arquette.
The only character in the movie that knows Susan confuses Susan is a constant topic of discussion and an object of fascination (yes I do mean “object”). Half-wrong to say that she comes into herself again for her new lover,Īnd only half-right to say she does it because of him, but when sheĬhooses to change, she’s clearly also choosing to be happy, and few things areĪs empowering as taking that into your own hands. But when Loretta meets her fiancé’s passionate and over-impulsiveīrother (a young and hysterically awkward Nicholas Cage)he triggers in her a transformation long overdue. Safe, stable man who’s resigned to “settling down” in the most sedentary way Audiences so liked the team of Nick and NoraĬharles that MGM ultimately produced five Thin Man detective comedies.īookkeeper and pragmatist Loretta is set to marry a There are few women who’d follow theirĮx-detective husbands around, solving crimes for the fun, but it was theĭepression and she was rich. Playful and usually drunk, but since her husband shared in her proclivity for Socialites, but it’s hard not to love this party girl. There’s something discourteous about Depression-era Nico’s “These Days” time takes on another dimension. Leaves the Green Line bus and approaches Bomber (Luke Wilson) to the cadence of Mysterious and renders those around her impotent without really trying. “woman” in all her self-loathing, self-serious austerity, she’s feminine and While you’d be hard pressed to consider Margot Tenenbaum a She’s a glorious mess, a secretly smoking playwright whoseĪttire/uniform is the fashion equivalent of class warfare: Fur, polo dress and And, oh, the demi-fros and eyeliner on some of these girls Them iconic after all: They’re relevant, even if they’re dated. Hat, you can empathize with their comedies, dramas, and romantic entanglements. You’ll note these are mostly single girls, struggling against gender roles and wrestling (not just metaphorically) with relationships.Įach are products of their city, but hopefully, wherever you might hang your In celebration of the long awaited theatrical release of SexĪnd the City, RT is turning the spotlight on New York’s 20 most iconic
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